4 posts and columns on mobile data

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AT&T Plan Would Let App Makers Pay for Subscribers’ Data Use

in Mobile on February 27 at 10:06 am PT

AT&T Inc. is preparing a service that would let content providers and developers of mobile applications pay the wireless carrier for the mobile data its customers use, the carrier’s network and technology head John Donovan said in an interview Monday.

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Sprint May Cap Data Roaming on Laptops

in News on June 14, 2010 at 2:35 pm PT

Sprint Nextel Corp. said laptop customers using an excessive amount of mobile data while roaming could have their accounts temporarily suspended, though the carrier still doesn’t plan to limit the wireless connection for its high-volume smartphone customers.

That 48 Percent Obviously Doesn’t Include iPhone Users

in News on June 26, 2009 at 5:18 pm PT

Nearly half–48 percent–of Americans would drop their mobile data service completely if they were driven to it by the souring economy. That’s the conclusion of a new study by Strategy Analytics, which found that consumers are not so taken with mobile connectivity that they’ve completely lost site of household budgetary constraints.
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